Saturday, February 16, 2008

Valentine's Day Treats

Well, I know this may be a little late, but I here are a few treats I made last week to share with my knitting group and everbody loved them! If you haven't guessed they're red velvet cupcakes with the real red velvet icing. Not nasty cream cheese icing... in my opinion cream cheese should not come any where near red velvet cake.

Although I used a box this time (food dye is really expensive for a college student). I usually make it from scratch which is definately better. My trick with boxes is to add a box of instant vanilla pudding to the dry ingredients which keeps the cake nice and moist.

Here is recipe that is better than a box any day that I pulled off the internet:

Well I hope everbody's Valentine's Day was great and full of love. Unfortunately this year mine was not nor even close. After about a year and a month my boyfriend decide he wanted to end our relationship. I am completely heartbroken and I miss him. We both still love each other and care a lot for the other person, but Wes feels as if it's time for him to leave the relationship. This break up is reall hard for me. Wes was my longest relationship to date, and I really couldn't picture my life without him. It's a long and complicated matter and I wouldn't want to bore you so I'll leave it short.

Now for current knitting news: I started a new and challening project. I'm doing two socks at once using magic loop. This my first time doing two socks at once and magic loop so this will be good learning experience. I'm already pass the toes and it's coming nicely. So look forward to hearing more about it in the future.

Too true about authentic red velvet cake frosting, I was just having this very rant the other day after reading old New York Times article about red velvet cakes (they were in favor of cream cheese frosting which IMHO only belongs on carrot cake). I just baked a red velvet cake for tomorrow's Easter dinner with real frosting.